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Yep - that's them. Another nice title: "Nailed up for Nothing".

Technicolor Yawn featured Charlie Hazlewood, now top classical music bloke, often on TV/radio.

I now work for (as VFX supervisor) a new company in Soho/Chinatown called Rainmaker. We're the new UK wing of a large, well established company in Vancouver BC.

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Good luck to you from the former bass and occasional rhythm guitar player of such CH supergroups as Jinx and Uncle Harry's Last Freakout. Last gig behind the theatre, Summer 1984 (I think!). Gene Simmons and his Rock School could have taught us NOTHING! ;) But we would have been a better band if our...

Roger Martin - what a great house master. Good old Barnes A. A bit tatty, very liberal, very creative, very happy - I was so proud to be part of that house, and much of it was down to Roger the Dodger's influence. Who else would, on request, hand over industrial quantities of liquid soap, so that bo...

Ah - Rattie James! He wrote a proper chemistry text book, if memory serves? Didn't know about the RAF business though. He was reputed to have blown out some/all of the windows of the chemistry lab with an ill-adviced demonstration of the amusing combustion properties of hydrogen. Is that totally apo...

You seem to be on the right track re the showreel. DVD is good, as long as it actually works! (check it a few diferent players/computers). Printed backup info is good too - small frame grab of each shot and one sentence blurb about what you did on it. Re companies wanting experienced people, well ye...

I have plans to make a short animated feature in spare time with some friends over the next year with a view to entering it into next years festival, which I suppose would be a way of keeping up my other skills. Great idea, but the key with these things is, of course, to actually finish the thing! ...

Notwithstanding the total fairies above who obviously didn’t appreciate the glorious game. Heh. Is your neck thicker than your head? Do your ears look like roadkill? Do you spend your leisure time smeared with mud, with your head and/or hands stuck between some other guy's sweaty thighs? :)

One thing I noticed at CH was that they mostly pumped out students doing English, Geography and Art etc. ... well, that'll include me, then, as I left with History, English and Art... don't underestimate the value of the generic, universal ones! :) Sounds from your message that your are definitely ...

Oh goodness - that's too kind. I don't think, however, that I can be trusted not to forget to send it back. I'm a bit of a dope when it comes to things like that. Procrastination is the name of the game. Hmm - but I *would* like to read it. Let me ponder... and in the meantime, thankyou very much fo...

Who was it that was demonstrating the amusing combustion talents of hydrogen, and succeeded it blowing out half the windows in the Chemistry lab? Did I hallucinate that, or did it actually happen? I'm thinking it was a teacher, and a lot of windows were involved.

marty wrote:the "master" to whom you refer was EJ Wolstenholme,

No - that's not the Zob I was thinking of - I think I remember Wolstenholme, and he was a lot more cuddly. This Zob was rather authoritarian, a housemaster, and quite feared - hmmm - can't get the name though.

I'm interested in this one: zob - to use a PC, to play computer games That was used in my time (78-84), but in 2 different senses. There was a teacher (a "master"?!) whose "insult" was Zob. Can't remember his real name though! Ha ha. But I don't think he was too popular. A housem...

SPRIM - Pungent ammonia based liquid kept in a saucer with a really dishevelled nailbrush, (usually outside Matrons so she could spot who had the muddy hems and therefore were the smokers) - used to wipe stains off uniform. Is this still used? Oh god, yes. It was purple, wasn't it!? Good for de-cru...

Well the stink/smoke bomb escapade is pretty outstanding - give the man a prize for initiative and daring! We used to use the tube quite a bit, to get to dining hall when it was raining (this was allowed) and to go between houses (not really allowed, but not too serious if you were caught.) The tube...